Why I'll always say Morrowind is the best TES game

[TinCow]

I understand it works like this:
Morrowind's overall map size is larger, HOWEVER, Oblivion has more actual land, as Morrowind's map is like, %30 water (and, as I recall, basically goes on forever).

Yeah, that could very well be true, but even the water was fun. Once I figured out that shipwrecks were marked on the paper map that came with the game, I spent a lot of time and money to get equipment/spells sufficient to let me dive on the deeper ones, just to see what was down there. It was great fun getting out to some of the really remote islands as well. I think that only other game I've ever played that made pure exploration so much fun was Ultima Online in the early days when there were very few houses and being able to teleport was rare.